ix, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Attempts to portray the complex personality of Saint Francis, looks at his early life and influences, and discusses the rules he developed for the Franciscan order of monks

Translation of: Frère François

Idle youth -- 1181-1182 -- Giovanni -- The first witness -- Saint George and the dragon -- At home -- Religion and mischief -- Assisi, black or white? -- Father and cloth merchant -- 1191 and beyond 1195 -- History in motion -- The baptism of a king -- Behind the counter -- Idle youth -- The earth is so beautiful -- Wretches -- Ideas, those tireless travelers -- 1198 -- The troubled years -- Wounds and bruises -- "At the time when I was still in my sins" -- The Tripudianti -- The Troubadours -- Fair appearances -- The Simpleton -- 1202 -- Sisters and enemies -- 1203 -- In prison -- 1204 -- First disillusionments -- Ideal knight or knight of the ideal? -- The suit of armor -- 1205 -- The night in Spoleto -- The return -- Wounded with love -- God's fool -- Alike and different -- The cavern -- The talking image -- To Rome, to Rome -- A kiss for the leper -- San Damiano -- "Bernardone's way" -- Bernardone : the author tries to understand -- 1206 -- The great refusal -- A brief parenthesis -- 1207 -- The Benedictine welcome -- San Damiano revisted -- At home, continued -- The narrow way -- Conditions in the church -- 1208 -- The other -- By the ways of the world -- A witness above suspicion -- Brother Giles and others -- Barefoot beggars -- About the chroniclers -- Standing fast -- Manichaean influences -- 1209 -- Teaching the brothers -- Facing the world -- The pope and the beggar -- The power of dreams -- The beggar and the pope -- The trap -- The brother -- Rivo Torto -- Sermon in the cathedral -- Peace, Assisi! -- 1210 -- La Portiuncula -- You won't find what you're looking for in books -- John the Simple -- Life at la Portiuncula -- 1211 -- The Carceri -- 1212 -- Love story -- Sister Clare -- Life must be reinvented -- The children's crusade -- 1213 -- A mountain all his own -- 1214 -- The man with wings on his feet -- Brother Elias of Assisi -- 1214 -- 1215 -- My brothers, the birds -- The Fourth Lateran Council -- 1216 -- Perfect joy -- Sic Transit -- The conclave at Perugia -- Sending all of them to paradise -- Subiaco -- The damned soul snatched from Satan -- 1217 -- A feast of joy -- 1218 -- The child, the night -- The dead travel fast -- To the men in red -- Joy -- Francis and women -- 1219 -- The chapter of the mats -- The orient -- Face to face with the Sultan -- 1220 -- Come back, brother, come back -- A sublime and embarrassing story -- 1221 -- Living on dreams -- Brother Jacqueline -- The big bad wolf -- God alone -- 1222 -- Francis, Friar Minor -- 1223 -- Sermon at Bologna -- The lost rule -- The curse of Perugia -- The rule of the Friars Minor -- The hermitage -- Francis's face -- Christmas -- 1224 -- Letter to Brother Anthony -- The last chapter -- Grandeur and wretchedness of Brother Elias -- The Stigmata -- 1225 -- The return -- Hymn to joy -- Brother Fire -- 1226 -- The last winter -- Farewell, earth -- October 3, 1226 -- Sister death

Includes bibliographical references (page 274)

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